Posts tagged with "judges"

September 6th, 2018Cyprus has satisfactorily implemented only two of the 16 recommendations contained in an evaluation report by the Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (Greco). Of the remaining recommendations, eight have been partly implemented and six have not been implemented, a compliance report published on Thursday said.
The...

July 12th, 2018By the end of the year, courts should be staffed with some 26 new judges and the extra personnel needed in the judicial system to get it properly functioning, chairman of the Cyprus Bar Association Doros Ioannides said on Thursday.
Earlier this week, Ioannides was at the presidential palace in a meeting with President Nicos...

July 9th, 2018A number of judges will be appointed to work in afternoons in an attempt to settle long-pending court cases some of which date back to 2011, Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou said on Monday.
The justice minister said that there were a number of old cases, some up to eight years old, waiting to be heard at the district court level and...

January 9th, 2018Judges, not the government, will be in charge of enforcing French President Emmanuel Macron's proposed new legislation to fight fake news on the Internet, a minister said on Tuesday, dismissing concerns over state control of information.
Macron, a target of fake news and of a major data hack during his run for the presidency last...

October 9th, 2017
District court judges routinely fail to fill out application forms for paid leave, which makes it impossible to track how many leave days they use up at the end of each year, auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides has said.
This was among a number of problematic areas identified by the Audit Office in its special report on the...

September 7th, 2016
A second criminal court is to be created in Nicosia and will begin operation on September 10, it was reported on Wednesday.
The reason for the move is an increase in the number of criminal cases.
The new three-member the criminal court will be judges Elena Ephraim (president), Nicos Yerolemou and Stella...

July 27th, 2016Cyprus must improve transparency in parliament with clear rules for lobbying and gifts, the Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) said on Wednesday, listing a series of recommendations to improve anti-corruption measures in parliament and the judiciary.
Although plenary meetings of the legislature are open...

July 15th, 2016The Supreme Court did not act as a trade union in advising parliament that including judges, the attorney-general, and his deputy, in a government bill regulating the state payroll would violate constitutional articles, it said.
The court’s chief Myron Nikolatos had appeared before the House finance committee last Monday, in order...

July 11th, 2016Attorney-general (AG) Costas Clerides told lawmakers on Monday that his office, as well as judges, should be exempt from the provisions of government legislation that aims to contain the public payroll.
The government bill intends to “keep the public payroll within a reasonable budgetary framework,” for example by linking wage...

April 13th, 2016A bundle of draft pieces of legislation on the source of funds of government and state officials, as well as high-ranking government employees, will be put to a plenary vote on Thursday.
The proposals - three government bills, seven legislative proposals by deputies, and an amendment to parliamentary regulations - will oblige officials...

April 4th, 2016Fewer people are being sentenced to community service and are serving jail terms instead largely because newly appointed judges and lawyers are unaware of the system, the House human rights committee heard on Monday.
There are 250 locations across Cyprus such as parks, volunteer organisations and libraries where people can serve...

February 18th, 2016Members of the House legal affairs committee on Wednesday accused the government of seeking to water down a bill regulating the submission of state officials’ assets and source of funds statements as well as whether the statements should be published.
Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou said the government is now proposing that only the...

January 14th, 2016The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will on January 26 select the next Cypriot judge to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
The three candidates for the post are Elena Efrem, Georgios Serghides and Costakis Paraskeva, with the top contender replacing current judge George Nicolaou, who has served since...

January 14th, 2016By George Psyllides
THOUSANDS of state employees, officials, and possibly others will be obliged to submit asset and source of funds statements, it emerged on Wednesday, after the issue was discussed behind closed doors by the House Legal Affairs Committee.
The list of people who would have to file statements include the presidents...

October 1st, 2015By Andria Kades
BETWEEN 800 and 850 divorces – more than two a day - are being filed every year in Cyprus and coupled with complications such as child custody and alimony battles, the courts are left to deal with 2,500 cases a year, MPs heard yesterday.
As a response to the growing phenomenon, deputies at the House legal affairs...

August 14th, 2015By Angelos Anastasiou
EMPLOYEES on the state payroll number almost 40,000 at an average monthly gross salary of €2,398 as of July 2015, a report issued by the Treasury revealed.
According to the report, which has been prepared for the first time, total employees (permanent and term-contractors) receiving a monthly paycheck from...

May 8th, 2015By Angelos Anastasiou
Judges cannot operate in fear for their safety, nor can they be expected to consider litigants’ wishes when making rulings, the Cyprus Bar Association said on Friday.
In a statement, the Bar Association’s head Doros Ioannides recalled an incident from earlier this week, when judges, lawyers and bailiffs...

October 16th, 2014By George Psyllides
LAWYERS and judges believe there are big delays in the dispensation of justice in Cyprus, a survey has found, with lawyers contributing to the current state of affairs.
The survey found that 90 per cent of those asked believe that the duration of civil cases was unjustifiably long – 70 per cent said the same...

October 5th, 2014CONGRATULATIONS to the Limassol traffic police chief Michalis Katsounotos for bringing attention to the scandalously lenient sentences imposed by Limassol district court judge Toulla Papapetrou in three cases of negligent driving, two of which resulted in deaths.
Judge Toulla did not consider a custodial sentence necessary in either...

August 27th, 2013THE JUSTICE ministry will open six new judges’ positions in a bid to tackle the ever-increasing number of cases and the huge delays in Cypriot courts.
Four other positions will open through promotions.
“Filling these 10 positions … will afford courts the ability to tackle increasing needs but also to expedite the dispensation...

August 17th, 2013JUDGES have fulfilled their pledge to contribute part of their salaries to the state after winning an appeal against the pay cuts imposed by the state as part of an austerity drive to prop up the economy.
Reports said all judges have signed declarations authorising the state treasurer to cut 20 per cent of their salaries from January 1,...

June 30th, 2013By Loucas Charalambous
THE APPEAL filed by district court judges against the legislation imposing wage cuts in the public sector and its upholding by nine judges of the Supreme Court, who also benefited from their decision was no surprise.
Judges are also members of Cyprus society. They are no different from our teachers, civil...

June 19th, 2013AS WAS expected the district court judges won the appeal against the cuts to their salaries, the Supreme Court ruling last week that this was in violation of Article 158.3 of the constitution. The article states clearly that “the remuneration and other conditions of service of any such judge shall not be altered to his disadvantage,...

June 15th, 2013By George Psyllides
THE SUPREME Court has ruled in favour of district court judges who had appealed against the pay cuts imposed as part of the effort to save the economy, arguing that their remuneration was protected by the Constitution.
Almost all district court judges had filed appeals citing Article 158.3 of the Constitution,...

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